You nailed the colors!
Oh thank you! ❤️
Oh yeah? Thank you! ❤️
I didn't get the whiskers right. The color is far too uniform. But his eyes are delightful.
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Math is math...
Thank you! I'm delighted with the progress I've seen over the past few years. I'm not where I want to be yet. But as I get better I keep moving the line, which I enjoy!
I'm honored, thank you!
Just to get away from Apple and Google.
I love the trend towards Linux phones. I hope that gets a good enough foothold for me to get one.
I got one! Get wrecked.
Thank you! And so does my brother. He's hooked on it.
Edit: Oh shit I just looked at the cover art / poster and it's nearly identical colors. Accidental ARC Raiders!
I don't think I can express how much I love the reference I used for this. The lighting is spectacular.
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Because this gentleman is clearly as smooth as. I don't know what it is but white hair is my thing. Being a bald man maybe I'm just envious?
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Every once in a while when searching for references I find one I have to stop everything and paint. That happened here. Fantastic photo and composition and the model is gorgeous.
In an attempt to find the model's name for more reference material (has no problem with white people), Google showed its racism.
Her face is right fucking there you piece of shit company!
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There are enough people who don't know this it seems.
I'm learning to (digitally) paint people and someone on Lemmy argued with me that the models breasts aren't real because no breasts are like that.
She just wasn't wearing a bra.
Once I posted the source image the person arguing deleted all their posts.
They also weren't using very respectful language towards the model and I called them on that at the same time.
I tried really hard to capture the warmth, nuance, and beauty of the models skin and subtracting everything else. I think I did the best I have with hard and soft edges as well.
What do you think?
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The reference model is wearing a black dress on a black background but not pure lightless black. I decided to push it and to give her skin a little sparkle to imply something supernatural. How'd I do?
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Simplification is the game with art. And I wanted to do something with more detail than I normally include. Looks like a real face.
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Trying to do something a little more stylized and less "photographic". The model's hair is in a bun and is also in gray scale. So a change this big is a big deal for me.
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When you absolutely must paint something over the top fabulous, you must paint drag queens!!!
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Continuing to enjoy the new brush I made to paint.
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If you know what NAMI is you can imagine the hard time my wife and I are having with our youngest, who turns out has BPD. They are med non compliant as is their partner the best we can tell.
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, and I Hate You - Don't Leave Me would all have made the top list if I didn't have an arbitrary limit of only two top books a month.
That said most of the books I read in February I loved. For the complete list:
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Hazah! I was wondering if the effect worked or it just looked like I didn't finish the painting. Thank you!